The first step on the road to home-made wine happiness was to avail ourselves of the necessary equipment. In this case, the necessary equipment turned out to be pretty much just one large fermentation barrel (perhaps a little too large). With the barrel purchased, we were ready to choose our fruit. After a little time browsing the market, we chose to make our wine out of peaches, because peaches are cheap. As it's our first go, we chose to make a (relatively) small amount, so we bought 6 punnets, which ended up giving us 4.9kg of peachy pulp, after being enthusiastically pushed through a food processor.
We added 2.2kg of white granulated sugar to the gloop and 4 litres of water, which left us with 10 litres of a mixture that looks remarkably like sick, but smells amazing. It's gone under the stairs for a week to have a sleep, but we'll wake it up a week from now for a bit of boiling and to introduce it to the yeast. Exciting times.That's all for now!
Sam and Jonee
